Seychelles Vacation

Enjoy Delicious Cuisine on a Seychelles Vacation

Flavors will erupt in a person’s mouth when they taste the cuisine of the islands while on a Seychelles vacation. Every dish has a unique flavor, whether it is Creole, French, Indian, or Orient. Sometimes all those flavors blend together for an amazing taste that cannot be replicated anywhere else in the world.

Under and above water photo of small island in Seychelles

Here are the best foods and dishes for a person to eat while on a Seychelles vacation:

Grilled Fish

Every piece of fish in Seychelles is fresh and delicious, therefore a person can never go wrong when ordering this. The most popular types that are often grilled include red snapper, jackfish, jobfish, and sailfish. Most of the time, chilies, ginger, garlic, and lemon juice is used when the fish is grilled.

Breadfruit Chips

Breadfruit is a food that grows high up in the trees in Seychelles. This food is cut up, salted, and then fried in a pan before serving. They are available almost everywhere in the country and people will want to stock up on them to take home from their Seychelles vacation.

Tropical beach at sunset – nature background

Octopus Curry

Octopus is the second most popular seafood in Seychelles and this dish is their favorite way to prepare it.

Breadfruit Mash

The chips are quite popular, but so is the mash that is made from the same breadfruit. To prepare this dish, the breadfruit is baked and then mashed with chicken stock, butter, and a little curry powder.

Shark Chutney

Shark chutney is a creole dish and the shark is boiled and mashed before being mixed with Bilimbi, lime, onion, and turmeric. On occasion, people will find dried fish is used instead of the shark for this dish.

Smoked Fish Salad

This salad can have any number of ingredients in addition to the smoked fish that obviously needs to be used. Oftentimes, there is no dressing on this salad, so that the full flavors of the fish can be enjoyed, however, some people will squeeze lemon juice over the top.

Ladob

Ladob is a delicious dessert that is made with either sweet potatoes or bananas. The sweet potato or banana is cooked in coconut milk and sugar before being flavored with vanilla, nutmeg, and cinnamon.

The cuisine that people can experience on a Seychelles vacation is exquisite and no one will want to leave the islands without tasting as much as possible. Many people will choose to take some of the food home with them, so that they can share the amazing flavors with family and friends.